If you're like me and hate defacing the scenery just to get sand, why don't you use quartz instead?

Create Glass from Quartz

Step 1. Get Quartz

Step 2. Shove some into a crucible (where does this crucible come from, you ask? Don't worry about it. Soon it will be gone.)

!3 Quartz in a line make 1 Crucible

Step 3. Put this crucible in a furnace

!Smelting 1 Quartz Crucible gives 1 Glass

And voilà! (You'll notice it grants a bit more XP than smelting Sand into Glass.)

Break Quartz blocks into Quartz

"Full" Quartz blocks will give you 4 Quartz back and "half" Quartz blocks (stairs and slabs) will give you 2 Quartz back. Fair enough, right?

!1 Quartz block gives 4 Quartz !1 Quartz stairs/slab gives 2 Quartz

Amethyst is Quartz

Spoiler

And therefore, you should be able to get Glass from it. Purple Glass!

!3 Amethyst Shards in a row give 1 Amethyst Crucible !Smelting Amethyst Crucibles give you Purple Glass

But if you'd like, you can also mix and match Amethyst Shards with Quartz. Using 2 Amethyst Shards with 1 Quartz will allow you to create Magenta Glass:

!2 Amethyst Shards + 1 Quartz = 1 Magenta Crucible !Smelting Magenta Crucibles gives you Magenta Glass

Whereas using 2 Quartz with 1 Amethyst Shard will allow you to create Pink Glass:

!2 Quartz + 1 Amethyst Shard = 1 Pink Crucible !Smelting Pink Crucibles will create Pink Glass

Break Amethyst Blocks into Amethyst Shards

You don't need to place Amethyst Blocks down to break them with your pickaxe anymore:

!1 Amethyst Block = 4 Amethyst Shards

Turn Soul Sand into Tinted Glass

Soul Sand is sand, isn't it? So we should be able to get some kind of glass out of it! Since Soul Sand is an edgy version of Sand, you should be able to smelt it into the edgy version of Glass: Tinted Glass.

!Smelting 1 Soul Sand gives 1 Tinted Glass

And that's it for this mod. I hope you'll find it helpful.

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Tested with Fabric API 0.91.0+1.20.1

This mod is provided "as is". It should technically work on all 1.20.X versions of the game. I am not planning to update/backport this mod to a different version of Minecraft. You're free to do so yourself, however.

 

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